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Dr. Richard Reiss is a Principal Scientist in Exponent’s Health Sciences practice. He is an experienced environmental health scientist with expertise in risk assessment exposure assessment environmental chemistry and fate mathematical modeling and applied statistics. He provides consulting services related to scientific issues associated with numerous environmental statutes and has expertise in both air quality and chemical risk assessment. He has conducted risk assessments data analyses probabilistic exposure modeling and environmental exposure modeling for environmental agents such as pesticides industrial chemicals consumer product chemicals and asbestos. He has conducted risk assessments for new and existing products and has testified for clients for these products in front of Federal and state regulatory bodies.
Dr. Reiss is very active in the application and development of quantitative methods in risk assessment. He is the developer of the Probabilistic Exposure and Risk assessment model for FUMigants (PERFUM) which is an air dispersion model designed to evaluate bystander inhalation exposure following fumigant applications. Dr. Reiss is the Managing Editor of Risk Analysis: An International Journal the leading scholarly journal for risk analysis. He was the winner of the 2001 Chauncey Starr award from the Society for Risk Analysis. This award recognizes a risk analyst less than 40 years of age that has made major contributions to the field of risk analysis. Dr. Reiss is also a councilor in the Society for Risk Analysis. | 